The evening world., 1887-10-10
THE CENTRAL TRUST. COMPAN
OF NEW YORK,

hearing nothing from her own mother and
knowing that Johns mother had known her
toned John. who in turn questioned his
mother, and then alphabetically informed
Rosy that her father had been q vastly good
natured man, very tender in his relations
with his wife, who had not been as peaceful
in her married life as she should have been,
and who altered unwarrantably after her hus-
bands death. All this had brought join and
Rosy closer together.
Martha turned against her daughter then,
especially as she saw developing in the girl q
nature like her own-persistent, warning till
she gained her end, and perhaps never know
ing when she had gained it. Blu Rosy sufh-
GENTLY respected her mothers expressed dis
like to keep John in the background. The
they planned as to what were the best means
TO overcome Mrs. MARBLES prejudices-which
John accounted for on the score that she
wildly recalled old times and hated those
who were associates then and who, when her
own sorrow came, were still happy, and We're
still on the heights while she dwelt in the
neither gloom and elected herself an outcast--
accounted for by thinking that she ~enviously
resented the JOY of the world that had passed
over her own distress as of small account; joy,
to her, must ever be q thing to s~trangle, there
fore she would not countenance the happiness
of her daughter. John got Rosy to reason as
feebly as he did, and they. set about devising
relied too much upon her woman tact she
began to quote Johns mother, how young she
looked. how tenderly she reverted to old
times, how she too hal lost q husband and
instead of becoming embittered spoke with
dewy eyes of a reunion in heaven, and de-
sired but one thing more on earth-to ad-
vance her sons happiness.
And Martha heard all this and made no
comment.
Then John told Rosy, after they concluded
that they had softened her, to tell her mother
that he would wait on her the following day
and sue for Rosy's hand; -,
Tell him to come to-day" Martha said,
and Rosy flew down to the four elms where
John awaited her to know the result Of her
conference with her mother, and brought
him to the house. She did not know at the
time what went on between John and her
voices in the parlor as she Ampatiently walked
about the hall she expected every moment
to see the paTler door open and to hear
SosnSs bpeU oSa Eio asg1%ssnt ali rn her how %ot sysFy
objections md be untenable-must disap-
pear before hisympassioned arguments. In
stead Of which the parlor door opened only
to let out John, white Of face and with COM
"It is all over. Good by |" he said.
He did not even offer TO take her hand.
Ska was rooted TO the spot. He went past
her out the hall door. She could not have
moved from where she stood, and her mother
did not come from the parlor. Pretty soon,
though, she began to feel shaky. and it was
not long before she sank into a chair and put
her cold hands up over her face. h was
| conscious of ~rustling garments near at hand.
Rosy" her mother said, sharply, you're
more ~undaughterly than l thought"
That was all; not q word of compassion,
not a word Of sympathy; selfish to the last.
And Rosy was too proud to ask o word of
explanation. But she haunted the four slms,
Two days after his interview with her mother
she heard that he had started for the West,
What could her mother have said to him ?
Day after day she sat in the house, trying to
about the ordinary household duties, rallied
ut Sam Pennel, busted the china shepherdess
and tho daguerrotypes on the. wha.-not In the
parior, and sewed in the rocking.cha on the
porch. Then Rosy would 60 down TO tho
Four elms and waitfor John. who never came.
Thres months passed away, and not Q word
from John, not q word from her mother.
Needless to speak of her misery, her hoping
against hope, her savage pride that kept her
silent to the verge Of madness. And then tS-
! was sin III IN Q ranch In the FAR West no